Jagdish S. Gangolly School of Business (BA 365C), State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 Phone: (518) 442-4949, Fax: (518) 442-3944 E-mail: j.gangolly@albany.edu, URL: www.albany.edu/faculty/gangolly (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)

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Welcome to my pages. You will find here most of my research project pages and teaching materials for my classes. The teaching materials are meant for the use of students at the State University of New York at Albany. My academic interests lie generally in the areas of Knowledge Organisation and the Formal Specification of Controls in Accounting systems. I also have collateral research interests in Reasoning in Accounting and the Relationship between Accounting and the Philosophy of Law. My research has followed four general themes: markup languages for financial reporting, models and metrics for resilient computer networks, models of controls in accounting systems, and in developing lexical resources for accounting. My work in markup languages for financial reporting, in coillaboration with my colleagues in Accounting as well as Management Science & Information Systems, deals with the development of schema to support the validation of financial reports, and the development of algorithms for their validation. The people I have collaborated with in these areas include Kinsun Tam, and Sanjay Goel. The work in the general area of models and metrics for resilient networks in general includes support for multi-party transactions in peer-to-peer environments, network security models based on the principles borrowed from Immunology and Epidemiology, and structure-based resilience metrics in service-oriented networks. The people I collaborate with in this research thread Include Daniel Rosenkrantz, S. Ravi, and S. Goel My research in models of controls in accounting systems involves building of models of accounting systems in the context of workflows in order to study their computational properties to provide a theoretical framework for auditing. The people I collaborate with in this research thread Include Daniel Rosenkrantz, S. Ravi, and S. Goel . The ultimate objective of my research efforts in the area of development of lexical resources for accounting is to extend the WORDNET semantic network to financial accounting. As a first step in that direction, in collaboration with my colleagues, I am studying the statistical properties of the text underlying financial accounting standards (the most recent work dealing with the text in the SEC filings by US Corporations). My recent doctoral students have work in the areas of subsumption methods for automatic concept hierarchy formation based on term-document frequencies (Yi-Fang Wu), temporal reconstruction of financial accounting standards (Ingrid Fisher, now a colleague), and methods for the automatic classification of accounting concepts by latent semantic indexing and clustering (Margaret Garnsey), and content analysis based portfolio screening (Brett Stone). I teach graduate courses primarily in the Information Systems area (such as Analysis & Design, Accounting Databases, Three-tier application development, Electronic Commerce, and Computer Security). Every other year I also teach, jointly with the faculty in Information Science, Computing, MIS, and Geography, a Ph.D seminar in Information Organisation at the School of Information Science & Policy. Occasionally, I also teach Ph.D courses in the areas of my research interest. For the exasperated New York tax payers who are still not convinced that I earn my salary the old-fashioned way, and fantasize about the leisure of the theory class (apologies to Thorstein Veblen and to Steve Zeff), here is my 2001-02 annual report. My earlier annual reports can be found at 2000-01 1999-2000 and 1998-99 . For those who are wondering what I have been up to lately, here are some of my writings. For those who wonder where I surf, here are my recent bookmarks. For the compulsively curious, of course, here is my resume (HTML, postscript). Updated October 8, 2002